The statement that Heraclitus is known for is one cannot step in the same river twice is a head scratcher; however, I think what Heraclitus is trying to say is that one cannot …show more content…
Unity of opposites relates to everything moves, nothing stays and one cannot step into the same river twice because both situations are relatable but have opposite claims because whatever had to exist before that is what changed the specification of the river. Flux is relatable to one that cannot step into twice because it's basically saying that the flow of the river is never changing but always moving. That statement is true because a river will always be flowing, but it never really changes. Unity of opposites describes it as something needed to have existed before the river became about, which is why the theory everything moves, nothing stays, plays a role because whatever existed before the river is what made the river become what it is. However, whatever had existed was completely opposite have the river now and how it became yet it still was needed in order for the river to be there. Flux and the unity of opposites are coherent because the flux is always flowing and changing, but the unity of opposites had to change in order for the existing specification to be what it is now. They are both an association with each other because the two statements cooperate